Last Sunday in the Church’s Year
Pastor Reg Quirk
Resurrection It may be that, like me, you are not so familiar as you might be with your Shakespeare. Perhaps, for example, you don’t remember the plot of the Merchant of Venice at the moment. Suffice it to say that it is very complicated, with some uncomfortable religious overtones, and nobody emerges from it with […]
24th Sunday after Pentecost
Pastor George Samiec
Even if you’ve come in part-way through … For Christ has entered, not into holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true things, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf. Nor was it to offer himself repeatedly, as the high priest enters the holy […]
21st Sunday after Pentecost
Pastor George Samiec
Discipleship Details And as [Jesus] was setting out on his journey, a man ran up and knelt before him and asked him, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” And Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone. You know the commandments: ‘Do […]
20th Sunday after Pentecost
Pastor George Samiec
Monday to Saturday Living How’s your week been? The world has had an interesting one. The news channels have kept us up to date. If politics is your thing then in the US people are talking about debates, here in the UK about political conferences, and in Australia about how the female Prime Minister launched […]
19th Sunday after Pentecost
Pastor Reg Quirk
The lectionary happens to throw up on this day – the day when St Columba celebrates its 50th anniversary – a Gospel lesson in which Jesus teaches about marriage. Not the obvious lesson for such an occasion, but, in the end, not one that is totally irrelevant either. But we’ll get there in due course. […]
18th Sunday after Pentecost
Pastor George Samiec
Rejoice in the Lord Always! There is a tradition at installations of pastors to their fields of service – congregations, mission fields, teaching positions – where brother pastors greet the newly installed pastor with a word of Scripture. Over the decades I’ve tended to use the same verse – not because it is the only […]
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